NEW TOPICS

K. Well here are my two new topic ideas.

I really did want to stay within the medical field because that's where I plan to go in college. However, I think I would be limiting myself because my interests do lie else where as well. Maybe I had my panic attack too late. I don't know but I know that in order to recover I need to choose something that I am interested in an can work with fairly easily. I have begun to get into two new topics. However, I need to narrow it down. Feed back would be highly appreciated. These are my inquiry statements for my topics.

1. I am curious as to how to improve the school lunch so that it's menu items fit within the limits of a healthy diet for all those who eat it.

- This may sound very limited. However, I have been talking with Mrs. Peckham and I think that I could split my thesis paper up as follows: analysis of the current lunch menu - point out inadequacies and strengths, show caloric amounts for the foods, look at portion sizes, analyze ingredients in the current foods, then find research that shows what types of foods fit within a healthy diet, support for my suggested improvements, prove that the inadequacies in the foods, this includes the ingridents and caloric values are plausable, find research that show what types of foods would be most suitable for a school (possibly foods that have been shown to increase brain activity and alertness), then I would end with my suggestion of a meal plan for the cafeteria.
- I could include also at the end of this thesis a letter to Mrs. Betts describing my finding along with my suggested meal plan.
-I might also have to show how my suggested foods would fit within a budget.

Well I am having trouble formulating my second idea into an Inquiry statement. With this second idea I would like to enter into the conversation about biological alternative sources of energy suggesting the jatropha bean ( whose oil can be used as a biofuel and burns clean) as a possible alternative source of energy. Well as I am trying to type this out I am realizing that what I have so far would turn into more of a report than anything else. However if I went with this thesis it would be an argumentative thesis that would analyze and define the problem with current biofuels. It would look into using other possible biofuels, such as the jatropha bean, as other possible solutions to this problem.
I am not really sure how to work this into a thesis.
However, if you have any type of feedback be it good bad or otherwise please get back to me.

Thanx y'all.

Journal entry

Today we did our class talk. I got a chance to voice my concerns about my topic because it is so BIG and when I start asking around for hospital emergency plans for a bioterror attack people get really touchy. So i figured I should narrow it down some. I mean I had like a full scale panic attack. NOT good at all. So my goal is to refocus. This will require some talks with Mr. Engholm and Mrs. Peckham. The stuff that I am interested in I don't know enough about to mix any original though into. Scary i know. I mean I am thinking, although it might not seem like much I guess I just had my topic crisis late. I hope it's just not too late.

So today I talked with Mrs. Peckham for basically the whole 45 minutes that we were in the library. I just bounced ideas off of her. She has a lot of stuff up in her head so she was a big help. We started off by discussing small things like where does our trash go? I mean it's not exactly what I want to do because I want to stay on the same basic track that I was on before, the medical area. So I think that I might start looking into public health things like nutrition. However, I am sort hitting a wall when it comes to pushing in orignial thought. I mean I have an imagination but it seems to be doing it's own thing. So I will be posting a free writing post. I am planning to talk to Mrs. Peckham again, she has been really helpful so hopefully I can move quickly into a new thesis.

super bowl sunday

well I am not much of a football fan so I am upstairs doing homework. i started thinking about my thesis when my dad came upstairs to talk to me. He suggested that I look into things like staph infections. I got to thinking about the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take. I mean they are basically saying that no matter who you are if you come to them they will do their absolute best to help you. However, what if helping that person puts the doctor at risk? When is the doctor's well being considered? Should the doctor have the right to NOT treat a patient? How does this connect with what I am doing? HOW? Well if a patient has an infectious disease, caused by an pandemic does the doctor have to treat them? Or would this treatment of the patient inhibit the doctors ability to serve and help others?

I am just thinking out loud here.